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Description: | Ts account (26pp) of his service, mostly as a Corporal, in the 26th (Bankers) Battalion Royal Fusiliers, covering his enlistment in November 1915, training and posting to the Signal Section of D Company and his experiences in France, from May 1916, with 41st Division initially in the Ypres Sector; on the Somme (July - October 1916) including taking part in the attack on Flers in September; at Dickebusch throughout the winter of 1916 - 1917; at St Eloi and Messines Ridge in June 1917; taking part in the attack on the Bluff on 31 July and on Hill 60 in September; in Italy over the winter of 1917 - 1918, mostly instructing in a signal school; and in the Ypres Sector again, mostly involved in signal instruction from March 1918 until his demobilisation in January 1919; the account is well-written and provides a good picture of the daily life of a Signaller in the line. Also a ts account (2pp) of his journey to Italy by troop train in 1917; 2 field message books and 2 pocket notebooks containing ms notes and diagrams made at signal schools; 2 editions of `The Bankers' Draft' (26th Royal Fusiliers magazine) for June - July 1916 (no more were published); and a copy of 'The Crumps Play Pictorial', with a 'Crumps' (41st Divisional Concert Party) concert programme.
Cataloguer VAF
Catalogue date 1980-06-17 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Plint, R G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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